Tagged: 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting

WASHINGTON — The number of sex offences reported at American colleges and universities went up in the last decade even as overall campus crime decreased, according to an Education Department survey that also suggests high schools are safer than they used to be.

WASHINGTON — In what could prove the most important speech of his political career, U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday night delivered the first state of the union address in his second term, outlining a bold economic and education agenda and announcing troop reductions in Afghanistan.

By Pat Eaton-Robb
A group of children from Newtown, Conn. who recently recorded a version of Over the Rainbow are preparing for a live appearance during the E! Network's Grammy Awards pre-show on Sunday.

WEBSTER, N.Y. -- A 24-year-old woman was arrested Friday and charged in connection with the guns used in the Christmas Eve ambush slaying of two volunteer firefighters responding to a house fire in upstate New York.

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Newtown's children were showered with gifts Saturday -- tens of thousands of teddy bears, Barbie dolls, soccer balls and board games -- and those are only some of the tokens of support from around the world for the town in mourning.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama promised on Wednesday to send Congress broad proposals in January for tightening gun laws and curbing violence, declaring the time for action overdue after last week's massacre of children at a Connecticut school.